Juan de Dios Rivera

Juan de Dios Rivera y Freire de Andrade (1781-28 June 1843) was a General of the Chilean Army during the Chilean War of Independence and a liberal politician in post-independence Chile.

Biography
Juan de Dios Rivera y Freire de Andrade was born in Concepcion, Chile in 1781, and he joined the Chilean Army during the Chilean War of Independence. By 1814, he was a Sergeant-Major, and he initially saw Bernardo O'Higgins as a "vile pretender, a friend to the flatterer and the hypocrite". He went on to fight at the Battle of Maipu in 1818, and, in 1823, alongside Ramon Freire, he cofounded the Enrique Molina Garmendia High School. He began his political career in 1823 as Minister of War and the Navy under Freire, and he affiliated himself with the liberal Pipiolos faction. He went on to serve as Mayor of Concepcion from 1823 to 1826 and from 1827 to 1830, and he unsuccessfully sought the presidency in 1829. He died in Concepcion in 1843.